I don’t understand how Triagebot handles Zulip commands. I can see in the code that it listens for webhook events at the /zulip-hook endpoint, but I can’t find any part of the code that’s responsible for figuring out if there is supposed to be a command invocation in a given message.

So what I imagine is that the bot is subscribed to only receive messages that notify it, i.e. pings and private messages. @simulacrum could you enlighten me on how the bot is setup? :D

yep, zulip by default only sends a request to the endpoint if the bot's name (triagebot in this case) is directly mentioned

we only support invocations that are via PM I think right now

so we don't actually look for the name of the bot or anything, just assume that the message in its entirety is the command

@triagebot test

Unknown command.

It responds in streams but fails to parse commands

For example

@triagebot ack

Unknown command.

right yeah because it's seeing "@triagebot" as the command which isn't a command

I suppose...

ack @triagebot

Failed to acknowledge @triagebot: Did not delete any notifications.

yeah, see

I have a few ideas in mind

I’ll experiment a bit and see how it goes